Red and yellow and pink and green—your urine can sing a rainbow too. You may be surprised to find out it can be purple and orange and blue. And a myriad of other unusual colors besides.
Urine acts as a medium through which the body can excrete several waste products. This includes nitrogenous waste from the breakdown of protein and muscle (in the form of ), and red blood cells. In addition, many different ingested compounds, including vitamins, medicines, and some from our diet work their way out of the body via urine.
But there are plenty of things that shouldn't be present in urine, and a doctor should consider is: "What color is it?" Doing so can help point toward a diagnosis. Red Red urine usually signifies . This can come from anywhere in the —from the kidneys to the bladder and the prostate gland, and all the tubing that connects them.
The appearance of blood varies according to volume and freshness and can produce many different colors. In high-volume bleeds, the urine can be so stained that it looks like red wine. Many , from to cancer, to trauma and .
But red urine can also come from eating . Orange and yellow Of course, we know that the color of urine in its normal form covers many shades of yellow—depending on how well hydrated you are. Dehydration makes for darker-yellow urine, sometimes verging on the cusp of orange, whereas good fluid intake makes for a dilute pale-yellow urine.
The compound that stains urine yellow is called . The process of making it sta.
